Delete files with :open when done with them

[throwaway-lmao]

Iamb downloads every file opened with :open before opening, which makes sense, but it doesn't delete them when I'm done looking at them, resulting in my downloads folder getting cluttered with a bunch of files I just wanted to look at once. It'd be nice if there were an option to automatically delete the file, so that it doesn't even seem as if the file was written to a file to begin with.

[CuterThanYou]

maybe specify download directory to /tmp/iamb? that won't write to disk, or it won't be persistent depending on how your distro handle /tmp

[throwaway-lmao]

That's an option, but not a great one IMO. The ranger file manager puts image previews in /tmp/, but has a bug causing them not to be deleted when the program closes. There've been multiple occasions where I simply hadn't restarted my device in long enough that ranger's files in /tmp/ actually took up it's entire capacity...
It's a better solution than $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR, at least, but can have odd consequences if you don't reboot often.

[kenrachynski]

I think that we're lacking a mechanism to have the called program inform iamb when it's done with the file. There is little that iamb can do in such a case.

[CuterThanYou]

I use yazi which also put image preview in /tmp but I don't even know how it handles it since I don't keep my machine running for too long. If you don't restart often, then one option is to just delete them with cron job.

That's an option, but not a great one IMO. The ranger file manager puts image previews in /tmp/, but has a bug causing them not to be deleted when the program closes. There've been multiple occasions where I simply hadn't restarted my device in long enough that ranger's files in /tmp/ actually took up it's entire capacity... It's a better solution than $XDG_DOWNLOAD_DIR, at least, but can have odd consequences if you don't reboot often.